Hundreds or protesters returned to the streets of Ankara and Istanbul on Sunday, after two days of continued unrest featuring 1,700 arrests. As Turkish Police continued to fire tear gas at protesters, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said protesters attempted to undermine democracy.
Eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a district filled with restaurants, dance clubs and offices. The mass abduction happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday, just off the city's main boulevard Paseo de la Reforma, near the Angel of Independence monument, about 1 ½ blocks from the U.S. Embassy.
Yanira Maldonado, an Arizona mother of 7 children was arrested and detained last week in a Mexican jail. She was accused of drug smuggling last week. Authorities stopped the bus was riding in with her husband, Gary, returning from Mexico after a funeral. They found 12.5 pounds (or 5. 7 kilograms), which appeared to be under her seat.
Traces of DNA on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance of a man praying in a mall led to the arrest on Wednesday of a young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier who was patrolling a crowded area outside Paris.
Israeli Defense Minister Minister Moshe Yaalon said that a Russian plan to supply sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Syria amounted to a "threat," indicated that Israel is prepared to use force to stop the delivery, the Associated Press reported. A top Russian official said on Tuesday that the planned sale of S-3000 air-defense missiles to the Assad pro-Syrian government forces remain committed to the deal.
The two men accused of hacking the soldier to death were monitored by the security services for years, and one of them was allegedly approached with a view to acting as an informant, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. British Prime Minister Cameron's visit to the security services, MI5's headquarters before deciding to go on holiday with his family has only fueled more ire by parliament members, about his judgment in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on British soil since July 7, 2005 when twin bus bombings killed scores of people in downtown London.
A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy Parisian commercial district on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. The government said it was determining whether this attack had any links to the British soldier who was killed on a London street earlier in the week by suspected Islamic terrorists.
A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by their male relatives in southern Egypt who believed that they had affairs, in the latest apparent example of the so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals, a security official said on Friday.
The Taliban launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, which sparked a five-hour battle with security forces. An Afghan police officer was killed and 10 others were wounded during the attack, which began with suicide car bomb outside a compound used by the International Organization for Migration, (IOM), Afghan police said. IOM is affiliated with the UN in Afghanistan.
An Islamist suspect reportedly ran over a British solider with a car in broad daylight, and then two attackers hacked him to death, dumping his body in the middle of the road in southeast London. The victim, dressed in what authorities said was a T-shirt for Help for Heroes, a charity that helps military veterans. The attackers then picked up a camera. "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone," said a meat cleaver-male with bloody hands. "The only reasons we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth," he said.
Activist and actor Sean Penn appeared on Capitol Hill on Monday, testifying before the subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Penn was introduced to the case in part by fellow actor Mark Wahlberg, regarding the case of Jacob Ostreicher, a New Yorker being held in Bolivia.
Karima el-Mahroug, the Moroccan woman at the center of a sex scandal involving former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi testified on Friday in court for the first time, describing how a young woman attending one of Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties dressed up like a nun, danced provocatively and stripped down to her underwear for the premier.
A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul, killing at least 15 people including six Americans on Thursday. Forty people were wounded in the morning blast that occurred at about 8:30 A.M
Russian security services said that they have detained an undercover CIA agent after he tried to recruit one of the country's intelligence officers. The Federal Security Service (FSB) said they found the man with various disguises, including wigs and sunglasses, as well as a large sum of money.
Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith, a State Department information officer killed along with three government employees at the consulate in Benghazi Libya on September 11 last year, has blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a CNN interview.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. and Russia share common interests in Syria, and that the two countries ought to work more closely to help end the bloodshed in the Arab country that has killed more than 70,000 people.
Hans Lipschis, a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard who once lived in the U.S. on suspicion of accessory to murder. Lipschis was taken into custody Monday after prosecutors concluded there was 'compelling evidence' he was involved in crimes at the death camp while there from 1941 to 1945.
It's May Day, so as expected, there have protests aplenty throughout the streets all over the world. As is an annual tradition, protesters demonstrated demonstrate for workers' rights, CNN reported on Wednesday. Groups carrying May 1 International Workers' Day banners and chanting 'Longlive Workers' Day' as they were confronted with water cannons and teargas. Istanbul, Turkey, for instance, is on a citywide shut down, CNN reported.
President Obama, in a news press conference to the White House Press Corps, vowed to close Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba - an unkept promise he had in his first term in office.
Syria's prime minister, Wael al-Halki, survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, underscoring the potency of the rebels in Damascus in their hopes of toppling Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Jeff Bauman, who was seriously injured in the Boston Marathon terror attack tearing his legs apart and rushed to the Boston Medical Center, provided the crucial tip to authorities. While in the intensive-care-unit, he wrote on a sheet of paper he was eye-to-eye with the terrorist. He lost both his legs below the knee once the bomb exploded near the finish line, Bloomberg News reported.
